Best Failing Quotes

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger’s lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that’s in us.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government… The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.

You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.

You never really fail until you stop wanting.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man – and I will show you a failure.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

You never want to fail because you didn’t work hard enough.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd’s Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship…something else.

We grant no dukedoms to the few,We hold like rights and shall;Equal on Sunday in the pew,On Monday in the mall.For what avail the plough or sail,Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

I think it’s doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there’s a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it’s unrealistic.

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

No amount of advertising can repair the damage done by failing to properly address a customer’s concern.

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult – to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

We don’t realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be.

My logisticians are a humorless lot … they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature – of which spirit is a part – need fear no premature decline.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

I believe it’s our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effective pack leaders for our dogs. Perhaps it’s also why we also seem to be failing at being positive guardians of our planet.